§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Treasury has given instructions to any of the Government Departments to ascertain the allowance, if any, paid to their clerks for wounds and injuries, with a view to an adjustment of their Civil salaries?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe general rule has been laid down that no deductions shall be made from the Civil pay or sick pay of Civil servants in respect, of disability pensions granted in connection with the War. This rule is subject to exception as regards sick pay in a limited class of cases of a quite special type,e.g., where sick leave is granted on or immediately after discharge from the Forces, or where prolonged sick leave exceeding thirty-six days in any year is granted to a person who has entered the service for the first time after his discharge and in whose favour the ordinary rules of medical examination have been specially relaxed. In such cases the rule is that Civil sick pay shall not exceed, with any disability pension, the full Civil salary of the post.